To The Saint Of Lost Causes

 

Melancholy Monday

Brown sugar blues

In the same vein

As your father

 

But you never made it

Across the river

To the other side

 

When you combine

The names of flawed giants

Who have fallen by the wayside

More than once

There is a grim

Divination

 

You leave us

Those sweet moments

From the Tennessee sun

To the kisses on the water of

The Harlem river

 

The whirlwind eases

Taking with it

A beautiful soul

And in the growing stillness

The cool breeze carries your name

Justin Townes Earle

 

Justin Townes Earle:  January 4, 1982 – August 20, 2020